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The foreground/background thing is pretty much switchable option. Server 2003 does NOT have theme support (no Luna) or the memory hog that is System Restore, and has no services beyond what XP has enabled by default. I don't have anything Macromedia, but I could probably swing a copy of...

I do not think they do. I am not an overclocker. Next time I reboot one I shall look. I think the OCing crowd for A64s is big on Nforce3 boards.

That's a really shitty thing. Sorry to hear it. On the other hand, cats do know where home is. Your little buddy might surprise you.

OK, I downloaded a real H.264 MPEG file. 1280x720, 9.5Mbit/sec; 20 minutes of Cindi er... sitting on a couch. And it plays PERFECTLY on even my XP2500 and everything else I have, even over my LAN. I thought the problem was just the resolution of the video. Now I'm thinking the problem is just...

NOLF was funny. I played it through a couple times (once in god mode just to hear the random chatter from the underlings). Also played the sequel. Call of Duty is a boring world war 2 game, or something. Quake3 is basically a multiplayer-only game. That is not my idea of a good time. Tex Murphy...

I have Photoshop 5.5 and (full) Acrobat 5 on the Server 2003WE I have as my work desktop. I've had Illustrator 7 and Pagemaker on it at different times. Does Premier not work? I would think that some people with high-end Intel rigs would be forced into 2003 Server just because of processor...

Well, I found a Microsoft patch that turns on DX9 acceleration for WMV files, but interestingly, it can't be installed until this little gem is in place. Better WMV = carrot, more DRM= stick. No thanks.

Personally, I think 2003 Server Web Edition is a WONDERFUL replacement for Windows 2000. It's almost Linux-like in its speed and utility, and it plays all the games and crap that I like to have on Windows. Anyway... forced to upgrade, a few guesses: 1. New software won't install - IIRC neither...

Hey, did everyone see the news about Windows Vista having eleventy-billion different versions and a minimum required 512MB RAM for the 32bit version? Or the thing about needing a monitor that supports HDCP to display HD (720p and above) content? Or the thing about it wanting a DX9-capable...

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Pbbt. The last one *I* found didn't work. Or at least the torrent with the same label didn't.

Pretending for a moment that you're using an NT-ish version of Windows, go to Control Panel (Classic View, if you're using XP), Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, right click on whatever disk number it is, and choose Delete or whatever the hell the option is. Then, right...

The Onion Strikes Again!

Handruin, I loves me some Worms. Haven't played it in forever, can't find my install discs for any of the versions I have (2, World Party or 3), but I do think it's good fun. Ninja rope + Ming Vase for the win! Farcry I will have to look for. Groltz also suggested Riddick-something-or-other...

I've found that rackmount hardware sits on a counter-top just fine. :) I understand that, for the workstations, the 2100wz and the like, the basic platform is a Tyan motherboard with a highly customized BIOS, but the servers throw away all reference designs in favor of something built entirely...

Actually, as I think of it, all WMV files play like ass on my machines. Not just playbacks, but seeks within the files are exceptionally slow, even when I'm comparing 5MB wmv files to 5GB mpeg2s. I'll also say that I avoid updating Windows Media stuff, because I despise all versions of the...

Er, the 3400 is the first 64-bit Sempron. That's why it's special.

I just found out that Sempron 3400s are in fact 64-bit chips with full support for Athlon64-ish goodness like Quiet n' Cool and SSE3. Pretty good deal for a chip that's $30 cheaper than an A64/3000.

Wish they had a similar deal for their opteron workstations...

Honestly, for the time it does work, Linksys stuff works better than other products. I'm not going to compare it to heavyweight Orinoco or true Cisco hardware, but it's been my experience that Linksys hardware works when Dlink or Netgear won't. In particular, Linksys APs tend to have vastly more...

The TWAIN app is distinct from photoshop. You should be able to work in both at once.

They all pretty much suck. I like Linksys PCI better than other brands I've tried, but my main problem is with the antennae coming off somehow. I actually have a client site where there are a couple of people who swear, despite repeated bitch-outs on my part, that they are handles. Anyway, the...

WIA scanners are evil. TWAIN! TWAIN! Nothing but TWAIN! Anyway, unless you're scanning negatives or slides, it's pointless to scan more than 600dpi, and if you're scanning negatives or slides, it's pointless to use a flatbed. This information is primarily for posterity. I'm sure everyone here...

To be fair, they're probably a little more common in Finland. what with being right next to Sweden and all.

To me the biggest crimes are the fact that many games these days are ported console titles that don't take advantage of PC hardware and the sudden narrowing of allowable genres.

I tried to be in a Saab once. I didn't fit. Oh, wait. That was an Audi. Never mind. True story: There is ONE Saab dealer in Indiana. It's in a town in the west-central part of the state, a place with a population of about 500.

6.8Mbps WMV9. I get about 20 fps on my 3800, about 15 on a 3200.

Honestly, it seems like a lot of really great stuff could be done, using Flash as a graphics engine. A lot of older, non-sucky games basically used tiles and sprites for everything, and that's pretty much what Flash is all about. I mean, look at the FSM flash game I linked to, or all games on...

I downloaded a HD video a few weeks ago. "Island Fever 3", starring Tera Patrick, Jesse Jane and Devon. 720p, and I don't think I have even one computer that can play it back smoothly. Perhaps I should try one of those other players. Media Player Classic certainly isn't doing it.

Remember to play the DOS version. The Win32 version doesn't have the whole, cool score or a 1024x768 display mode. PC games used to be good. I don't know what the hell happened. I'm looking at my collection of PC games. I see some really great and creative stuff here. Games that didn't suck...

Adobe's software does seem to work better on Intel. I'd say that's a mistake on their part. Personally, I use Gigabyte and Soltek boards with Via chipsets, and they're fine. I have gobs of them. I sell gobs of them. I'd build them every day of the week, no problem. For myself, I won't consider...

Since I just upgraded my game PC to something nice-ish (x2/3800, x800 GTS/256MB), I thought I'd go look for something new and cool to play on it. Little did I know that all PC games on the market right now suck in ways that could only be explained by an analogy to gay porn that I don't feel...

loose vs. lose Ur vs. Your and U vs. you rediculous vs. ridiculous 4 vs. for 2 vs. too to vs. too IM/texting-speak is evil.

I'd suggest something in a dual Opteron. Say, a Tyan K8WE, with support for two dual core CPUs, PCI-X and PCI-e, and as much as 16GB RAM. That ought to cover all your bases for I/O and CPU horsepower. Back in the land of reality, Gigabyte and Soltek make great Athlon64 boards. At this point I...

i, that is a very random link indeed.

Contacts are disgusting. Putting things in your eye is disgusting. I know someone who lost an eye because he wore a set of contaminated disposable contacts Contacts are bad. Glasses frame and draw attention to your eyes. They make you look distinguished and intelligent.

I've used it for City of Heroes and a tiny amount of Doom 3. No complaints. I'm not the right person to judge how well it works for that, since I barely play games any more.

At one time, the Church was the biggest retailer in Utah, too, with Zionist Cooperative Mercantile something-or-others as the only store in most towns. I suspect the edicts regarding goods on hand had more to do with making the local grocer rich than anything else.

I am willing to pay large amount of money for an HDA X10, if anyone out there in SFland happens to see them somewhere.

Cripes man, this is not a long post. Trust me. Alright, first thing first, most likely, your MFT has gone off in the weeds. That's not THAT big of a deal, but if there's no working copies of it or its file index, you have real work ahead of you. The fact that Windows acknowledges that there is...

Best. Flash. Ever.

I like that SuSE 9.3 has a nice updater. I wish it was based on apt, but that's easy enough to bolt on to SuSE regardless.

There's a nasty bug in Mozbrowser URL handling. Buffer overruns from extra-long URLs with dashes in them that can lead to remote execution. It's probably fair to assume it'll be fixed in the next short while, so be prepared to click your little red arrow and advise your clients and lusers to do...

Yahoo IM by itself doesn't install any Spyware at all. It's part of our classroom install. Your son is probably accepting file transfers or something.

A very tiny amount of research suggests that it's a bug in 9.3. I had some difficulty with mounting pre-existing hardware RAID on my 3ware cards under 9.3 as well. When I pulled my existing drives and tried new ones in a plain old software array, the array wouldn't format (boo). I compiled a...

Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney, live from MSNBC.

FEMA, Homeland Security, and all the Armed Forces are part of the executive branch. George W. Bush is currently CHIEF EXECUTIVE. Regardless of what you think about what he is or isn't supposed to do, he DOES have the authority to make direct orders to those regulatory agencies and military...

It's also interesting to note that all the engineering gods that made Intel the semiconductor powerhouse are out of Intel's management now. Intel is run by MBAs nowadays and it shows.

I don't know if I've said this before, but I'm really, really happy with Soltek's Via based Athlon64 boards. I bought a couple socket 939 models, with 4 SATA ports, three IDE ports and gigabit suport, and I have appreciated that degree of expandability. Turns out, Soltek's Socket 754 version of...

Grokster turned out to be absolutely devastating in terms of what it installed. Easily the worst thing I could find. SurfSidekick version 3 was in either Hotbar or Grokster's installer. SurfSidekick 3 integrates into explorer; runs in safe mode and can't be removed by Housecall, Hijack This...